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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS – After a more than 36-hour outage that left the popular tourist island of Hydra without electricity or water as the summer tourism season was winding down, power was restored on Aug. 27, and the electricity distribution network operator DEDHHE said it wa sorry for the inconvenience.
A pair of power generators was also shipped to the rocky island as a precaution against another blackout, the business newspaper Naftemporiki said. The blackout was because of a problem with a mainland substation in the town of Kranidi.
The Regional Governor requested from the Civil Defence General Secretariat that a State of Emergency be declared on the island which lures yachts and celebrities and people who like its picture-postcard beauty, drawn by a ban on vehicles, apart from emergency needs.
Hydra has no water resources, and a pumping station connected to a reservoir is powered by electricity. The electricity distribution network operator, DEDDHE, said crews were on the island and the mainland to restore power and that generators could be brought as a backup if the repairs took too long.
Restaurants, supermarkets, stores and households faced the spoilage of perishable foods, cutting into the season and leaving tourists stuck too.
That came a few days after a widespread power outage hit the greater Athens area, also blamed on a malfunction at a high-voltage sub-station.
Hydra is only an hour’s ferry ride from the port of Piraeus. The problem started with a power outage at 5.30 a.m. on Aug. 25, Mayor Giorgos Koukoudakis told Kathimerini.
“The island lasted eight hours on its reserves and the power company (PPC) has said that it’s a matter of hours before power is restored, but will not say what caused the malfunction,” he said.
“You understand that the island has a lot of visitors right now and this forms a very bad impression,” he added.
Water shortages have also been experienced on the popular island of Mykonos this summer, despite measures taken by the municipal authority to respond to a spike in demand during the peak of the holiday season.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.